by Girish Anand | Mar 16, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
If you thought that four years late and $350 million over budget for the largely unneeded U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was bad, wait till you see what the projects flowing from the recent $787 billion stimulus package will cost. The 1931 David-Bacon Act (which...
by Girish Anand | Feb 13, 2009 | Random Musings
I just went through the list of items covered in the final version of the stimulus plan (so called) and added up all the sums that were targeted at projects that could actually lead to jobs. I came up with $146.2 billion, which figures out to be 18.5 percent of the...
by Girish Anand | Feb 10, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Health Care Reform
Those who were fretting that the extinction of Tom Daschle as potential secretary of Health and Human Services might delay health care reform needn’t worry. The inclusion of several stealth provisions in the stimulus package now sailing through Congress will...
by Girish Anand | Jan 22, 2009 | Random Musings
The latest version of the economic stimulus legislation includes 187 pages called the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, with $20 billion in funding to implement a nationwide system of electronic health records (EHRs). This is something that...